Gleason’s Twins is an ensemble obsessed with the blur between speech and music, word and noise. The duo performs settings of its poems, incorporating and infusing pre-composition with improvisation. With an unusual and spare instrumentation, voice and trumpet, they seek to expand the sonic ranges of their respective instruments while finding ways for the two sounds to mingle, contrast, and collapse. The work of Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi is a major inspiration and point of departure for the duo, as well as the compositions of György Kurtág and the poetry of Robert Creeley.
Gleason's Twins have appeared at The Stone, Goodbye Blue Monday, and Stain Bar in New York, and Mobius and the Zeitgeist Outpost in Boston.
Kristin Slipp has performed with Fred Frith at the 2008 Victoriaville Festival in Quebec, and also appeared in a performance of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in November, 2007. Joe Moffett performed with Joe Morris at The Stone in New York, as well as Huesca and Barcelona, Spain (October, 2006 and April, 2007).
